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Gardening GuidesGet the Dirt on Your Garden’s Soil
Understand how your soil supports your plants so you can ensure your garden’s success
Full StoryGardening GuidesWhat Prairies Teach Us About Garden Design
Wild spaces offer lessons for home gardeners about plants, pollinators and the passage of time
Full StoryGardening GuidesEntice Eastern Tiger Swallowtails With Summer Flowers
Grow nectar-rich native bloomers and larval host plants for these endearing butterflies
Full StoryGardening GuidesSpring Citrus Care Reaps Months of Sweet Rewards
Learn how to tend citrus trees in spring and ways to preserve their delicious fruit
Full StoryGardening GuidesAttract Thynnid Wasps With Summer-Flowering Native Plants
These beneficial insects will hunt damaging beetle grubs in your lawn
Full StoryFlowers10 Spring Wildflowers for the Central Plains
These blooming native perennials thrive in dry locations and help welcome early-season pollinators
Full StoryLandscape DesignHow to Create a Cottage-Style Garden
If you like an abundance of plants — and visits from birds, bees and butterflies — this may be the style of yard for you
Full StoryGardening GuidesGreat Design Plants: Rhus Trilobata
Plant skunkbush sumac for its brilliant fall color, and tiny late-winter flowers that provide food for pollinators
Full StoryGardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Acacia Stenophylla
Skinny shoestring acacia makes an effective drought-tolerant screen where winters are relatively mild
Full StoryGardening GuidesBackyard Birds: Northern Cardinals in the Snow, and Other Red Birds
Brilliant crimson feathers make these friends stand out in a crowd
Full StoryGardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Phlox Divaricata
Plant wild blue phlox in central and eastern U.S. woodland gardens for its bright blue flowers in early spring
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